My episode of House Hunters International is re-airing on HGTV this Saturday, January 18th at 11:30pm. Click here for more details! Dining area/kitchen This 22-minute episode follows my apartment hunt and captures the before and after of my apartment renovations....
Dear friends, Wishing you and your family very Happy Holidays! Still no plans for New Year's Eve? Join the fabulous Caroline Nin for her Edith Piaf concert! Warm regards,
This month, my report on Retiring to Paris's Marais District will be published in the Overseas Retirement Letter, a publication of Live and Invest Overseas. My editor, Lucy Culpepper, has shared some background on the publication: The Overseas Retirement Letter (ORL)...
I love the fact that Baden, my little town in southern Brittany, has its own coat of arms (in French, le blason or les armoiries). Photo compliments of Daniel Dozier of Cinq&Co. The three shells on blue clearly represent the sea, whereas the black figures on the...
This summer, I discovered French beer. There's no pairing like a Breton beer with an apple & salted butter caramel crêpe! France is known for its wine, not for its beer. But there is a growing number of microbreweries in France and some produce beer that can...
One day soon after my arrival in Paris, a co-worker starting talking to me about "my banker". I remember thinking he was pretty full of himself. Sure, I had a checking account with Citibank in New York, but I didn't consider the representative who set up the account...
Last night, having missed the opportunity when I was about 30 years younger, my aunt and uncle took me to my very first circus. View out my living room window (left) / Lion sleeping (right) My interest in going to the circus started last month, when the circus first...
Last month, on a sunny Sunday, I was touring southern Finistère with my mom. We had a number of stops planned for the day, one of the middle stops being the walled medieval city of Concarneau. We strolled around the pedestrian streets of the old city, then thought it...
Last Saturday I went to my local post office in the Marais. I had a peculiar predicament and I was hoping they could solve my problem. Since I left my law firm job, I no longer have access to free envelopes and (sometimes free) mail service. Having neither envelopes...
I was on my way to Nostang, a small town in the Morbihan north of the ria d'Etel, and I came across my second double giratoire. Nostang As many of you know, I passed my French driver's exam in the fall, and I'm proud. Ask me anything about the French rules of the...
